January 22nd, 2020
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1 hr 13 mins

Yoel and Mickey discuss a new paper by Tal Yarkoni suggesting that quantitative research in psychology is suffering from a generalizability crisis. Before that, they discuss Contrapoints's new video on cancel-culture.

November 27th, 2019
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1 hr 8 mins

don cherry, experimentation, methods, social psychology

Are many classic social psychology experiments more theater than science? Mickey and Yoel discuss "The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology," a book by the sociologist Augustine Brannigan that makes this provocative claim.

November 13th, 2019
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1 hr 25 mins

jazz hands, sesp, social psychology

Mickey and Yoel take advantage of the SESP (Society for Experimental Social Psychology) conference to ask guests some hard-hitting questions about the present and future of social psychology (and, of course, beers). We then answer the same questions ourselves.

October 30th, 2019
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1 hr 7 mins

heterodoxy, leaving academia, viewpoint diversity

Mickey and Yoel talk with Debra Mashek, the executive director of Heterodox Academy, an organization working to increase open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement in academia. But what does that mean exactly? We talk to Debra to find out.

October 16th, 2019
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1 hr 20 mins

bourbon, gre, kentucky, measurement

Jessica Flake joins Mickey and Yoel to talk measurement. What is it, how do you do it well, and do social psychologists care about it? What does measurement theory tell us about the validity of standardized tests like the GRE? Jessica also talks about how she went from high-school dropout to professor at McGill.

October 2nd, 2019
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1 hr 18 mins

ego depletion, fatigue, replication

Yoel quizzes Mickey about ego depletion. How did we start studying it? How has the replication crisis changed how we think about it? After more than a decade studying ego depletion, does Mickey still have any faith in the phenomenon?